Acquisitions

• How to buy a book for the University Library collection (from the Collection Management Manual) [4/2004]
• Requests for purchase of monographs [8/2006]
• Ordering monographs [8/2006]
• Sending monograph orders to vendor [8/2006]
  • Setting up vendors for EDIFACT ordering
• Special notes on monograph ordering [8/2006]
• Receiving monographs [8/2006]
• Sample order record for one-time-only serial

Invoices and Fiscal Management

• Paying monograph invoices [8/2006]

• Entering fund appropriations [6/2008]
• Creating funds (See Millennium Guide Page # 100706)
• Grouping funds (See Millennium Guide Page # 105788)
• Fiscal close [6/2008]
• Innovative monthly fund reports procedures [7/2009]
  • Generating fund activity reports (See Millennium Guide Page # 105490)
  • Printing financial reports for funds (See Millennium Guide Page # 105529)
• Creating vendor records
• Deleting order records
• Endowment funds (URI Foundation accounts)

Database Maintenance / Review Files

• Daily list of items cataloged
• Monthly list of gift items cataloged
• Adding CDATE to monographic order records
• Deletion of order records cancelled [[in process]]
• Deletion of old order records [[in process]]
• Creating a list of S.O. records [[in process]] -- list #22
• Creating a list of books ordered for a specific fund code

Copy Cataloging 

• Copy cataloging procedures [7/2006]
  • Inputting item information in 949 field [7/2006]
  • 856 fields in bibliographic record for monographs [02/2005]
• Updating, exporting, and label printing from Connexion [7/2006]
  • Label printer (includes Millennium settings)
• Cataloging one-time-only serials

Useful Links

• Connexion: Searching WorldCat Quick Reference
• OCLC Connextion Client Quick Reference
• ACQNET discussion list archives
• AcqWeb
• Against the Grain
• COLLDV-L discussion list archives